Jessica A TangDepartment of Neurological Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, San Diego, California Department of Orthopedic Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California Rocky Mountain Scoliosis and Spine Center, Denver, Colorado Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases, New York, New York Department of Neurosurgery, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VirginiaNeurosurgery 76:S14-21. 2015

..This study characterizes the structural stability of various posterior fixation techniques across the cervicothoracic junction in spines with AS, specifically considering the effects of posterior rod diameter and material type...

Impact of age on the likelihood of reaching a minimum clinically important difference in 374 three-column spinal osteotomies: clinical article

Jessica A TangDepartment of Neurological Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, San Diego, California Department of Orthopedic Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California Rocky Mountain Scoliosis and Spine Center, Denver, Colorado Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases, New York, New York Department of Neurosurgery, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VirginiaNeurosurgery 76:S14-21. 2015

..Positive spinal regional and global sagittal malalignment has been repeatedly shown to correlate with pain and disability in thoracolumbar fusion...

..This complicates the ability to compare outcomes across procedures and studies. The authors' objective was to establish a universal nomenclature for cervical spine osteotomies to provide a common language among spine surgeons...

..Authors of this biomechanical study are the first to evaluate a comprehensive set of reconstruction methods after C-2 resection to determine the optimal configuration depending on the degree of excision required...

..Surgical treatment may be indicated in patients with severe mechanical neck pain, neurologic compromise, and progressive deformity causing significant disability, such as dysphagia or loss of horizontal gaze...